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Noun: Catharism
  1. A Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
    - Albigensianism

Type of: Christian religion, Christianity, heresy, unorthodoxy

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